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Ten of the detective stories the genre grew from, from Poe's first Paris murder to Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown. Click Read now and the book opens in your browser, on a computer or a phone.
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A family curse, a spectral hound on the Devon moors, and Holmes in his best-known case.
Read nowStandard Ebooks pageThe first Sherlock Holmes story: how Holmes and Watson meet, and a body in an empty house in Brixton.
Read nowStandard Ebooks pageA pearl sent every year by an unknown hand, a stolen treasure, and a chase down the Thames at night.
Read nowStandard Ebooks pageEleven stories, from a missing racehorse to the meeting with Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls.
Read nowStandard Ebooks pageA sacred Indian diamond vanishes from a Yorkshire country house. Often called the first detective novel in English.
Read nowStandard Ebooks pageA woman dressed in white on a moonlit road near London starts a story of stolen identity and a fortune.
Read nowStandard Ebooks pageA New York merchant shot in his library, and his two nieces under suspicion. An early American bestseller.
Read nowStandard Ebooks pageIncludes The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the first modern detective story, and The Purloined Letter.
Read nowStandard Ebooks pageTwelve stories about a small, mild priest who solves crimes because he understands the people who commit them.
Read nowStandard Ebooks pageA stranger found dead in Richard Hannay's flat, and Hannay on the run across Scotland from police and spies alike.
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